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Re:Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucu... by Ataraxy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:02PM (#22240293)
It's funny because I'd bet most of the people that know how to program around here could write a similar app (and likely a betterone at that) in a matter of hours if they were so inclined.
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Re:Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucu... by russfink on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:26PM (#22240552)
The difference being that you didn't win the contract.
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Re:Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucu... by Ataraxy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:19PM (#22241103)
That's pretty immaterial. I was just pointing towards the fact that the simplistic nature of the application in the first place only serves to further highlight the incompetence required for such a catastrophic failure.
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Re:Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucu... by russfink on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:16PM (#22242653)
Got it. My comment was saying, wryly, the amount of thought you put in just now was probably the maximal level of project design and thinking they did.
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